Cybertel Ships Its CyberPhone to Iraq

Cybertel Communications Corporation has launched its CyberPhone using the latest in VoIP Telephony. Cybertel began shipping its VoIP telephones to the military personnel stationed in Iraq for calls home during the holidays.





Cybertel plans to make its CyberPhone available to all the military worldwide via exchange stores and general distribution. This positions Cybertel to provide long distance services to the military for far less cost than the current AT&T calling cards offered via the Exchanges.

The current costs to troops calling home from Iraq averages about 50 cents per minute. The CyberPhone, which attaches to a UBC port on a computer, will be free to the troops when they purchase 500 minutes at a cost of 10 cents per minute. Subsequent minutes can be purchased at 4.9 cents per minute, via the Internet or at the Exchanges, at an estimated savings of about 40 cents per minute. The CyberPhone eliminates the need for high cost per minute phone banks and makes it easy for our troops to make calls back home. Currently there are approximately 140,000 Marines, Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen serving in the Middle East. The CyberPhone will be used by military personnel overseas as well as their families here in the U.S.

Source: press release

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Posted 12/31/04 | Filed under: Internet |